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[–] marmo7ade@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if they don’t like the bird app, they would have got a Mastodon account.

Doubt. The venn diagram of people who don't want to use twitter and people who know what mastodon is, are separate circles with little overlap. Mastodon is not mainstream, like reddit. Redditors are still in denial about this.

Go ask a random 40 year old if they know what reddit is.

Even less people know about mastodon.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I should have been more specific, what I meant was "people who want to use a microblogging platform but don't like who's running the bird app. "

But I would say reddit is mainstream enough that random 40 year olds probably has heard of it now, after all the large big profile celebrity AMAs, it's the 10th most visited site in the world and 6th in the US.

[–] stooovie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon is almost all 40yo white guys. Source: am one

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Misskey is mostly Japanese artists who need more privacy. Hence, Misskey is a Japanese product, and Japanese Twitter refugees might find Misskey useful. People should join any other Misskey instance instead, if Misskey.io is full.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Weirdly placed comment, but I do think these platforms need the advertising, so do continue to spread the word

[–] gunnm@monero.town 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to point out many ex-Digg users are 30-40 years old. I would agree a 40yo normie who only use Facebook wouldn't know about Reddit.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd say a lot of these 40 yo on Facebook actually got on reddit during the QAnon nonsense.

[–] gunnm@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not American so not sure about qanon.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't r/the_Donald before Qanon?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There was ridiculous Q shit on reddit before Qanon became popular. In fact, that’s the first place I ever heard of it. I came upon a sub called, I think, cbts_radio (for “calm before the storm”) and was just like, what the fuck is this? It was a sub for off-topic casual discussion split off from the original cbts sub, and it was filled with the most ridiculous anti-Democrat/Hillary Clinton screechy conservative bullshit I’d ever seen. Qanon didn’t enter the public awareness for another couple of years after that.

[–] gunnm@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Seems qanon is from 2017 and the_donald from 2015.